Handbook for the Study of theHistorical Jesus

Contents

Introduction: The Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus in Perspective

Part One: Contemporary Methodological Approaches

How to Marginalize the Traditional Criteria of Authenticity

Fourth Quest? What Did Jesus Really Want?

The Search for Jesus’ Special Profile

The Historical Jesus: How to Ask Questions and Remain Inquisitive

Method in a Critical Study of Jesus

Context and Text in Historical Jesus Methodology

Remembering Jesus: How the Quest of the Historical Jesus Lost its Way

Jesus-in-Context: A Relational Approach

Sources, Methods and Discursive Locations in the Quest of the Historical Jesus

Basic Methodology in the Quest for the Historical Jesus

Jesus Research as Feedback on His Wirkungsgeschichte

The Role of Greek Language Criteria in Historical Jesus Research

From the Messianic Teacher to the Gospels of Jesus Christ

The Gospel of the Historical Jesus

Scholarly Rigor and Intuition in Historical Research into Jesus

Critical Feminist Historical-Jesus Research

Historical Scepticism and the Criteria of Jesus Research: My Attempt to Leap Over Lessing’s Ugly Wide Ditch

A Metalanguage for the Historical Jesus Methods: An Experiment

Part Two: Various Aspects of Historical Jesus Methodology

With the Grain and against the Grain: A Strategy for Reading the Sypnoptic Gospels

Form Criticism and Jesus Research

Tradition Criticism and Jesus Research

The Criteria of Authenticity

Alternatives to Form and Tradition Criticism in Jesus Research

Social-Scientific Approaches and Jesus Research

New Literary Criticism and Jesus Research

Memory Theory and Jesus Research

The Burden of Proof in Jesus Research

Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus

Contents

Introduction: The Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus in Perspective

Part One: The Ongoing Quest for the Historical Jesus

The Quest of the Unhistorical Jesus and the Quest of the Historical Jesus

Futures for the Jesus Quests

The Parable of the Goose and the Mirror: The Historical Jesus in the Theological Discipline

Historical Jesus Research in Global Cultural Context

Diverse Agendas at Work in the Jesus Quest

Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of Faith: Approaches to the Question in Historical Jesus Research

The Jesus Quest and Jewish-Christian Relations

Historic Jesuses

Part Two: Current Questions of Jesus Research

Jesus and Cynicism

Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel

Implicit Christology and the Historical Jesus

Jesus and the “Partings of the Ways”

Prophet, Sage, Healer, Messiah, and Martyr: Types and Identities of Jesus

Jesus im Licht der Qumrangemeinde

Jesus without Q

Dispensing with the Priority of Mark

The Role of Aramaic in Reconstructing the Teaching of Jesus

The Quest for the Historical Jesus in Postmodern Perspective: A Hypothetical Argument

Why Study the Historical Jesus?

Part Three: Persisting Issues Adjacent to the Jesus Quest

The Context of Jesus: Jewish and/or Hellenistic?

The Transmission of the Jesus Tradition

Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Herodians

The Son of Man in Ancient Judaism

Jewish Apocalyptic and Apocalypticism

Anti-Judaism and the New Testament

The Writings of Josephus: Their Significance for New Testament Study

Rabbinic Writings in New Testament Research

Synagogue and Sanhedrin in the First Century

Echoes from the Wilderness: The Historical John the Baptist

Historiographical Literature in the New Testament Period (1st and 2nd centuries CE)

Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus

Contents

Introduction: The Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus in Perspective

Part One: Jesus in Individual Documents

The Historical Jesus in the Gospel of Mark

Jesus Tradition in Non-Markan Material Common to Matthew and Luke

The Special Material in Matthew's Gospel

Lukes and Acts

The Non-Synoptic Jesus: An Introduction to John, Paul, Thomas, and other Outsiders of the Jesus Quest

Jesus Tradition in the Gospel of John

Jesus Tradition in the Letters of the New Testament

The Thomas-Jesus Connection

Traditions About Jesus in Apocryphal Gospels (with the Exception of the Gospel of Thomas)

Jesus Tradition in Early Patristic Writings

Jesus Tradition in Classical and Jewish Writings

Part Two: Fundamentally About Jesus

The Historicity of Jesus: How Do We Know That Jesus Existed?

Background I: Jesus of History and the Topography of the Holy Land

Background II: (Some) Literary Documents

Background III: The Social and Political Climate in which Jesus of Nazareth Preached

The Chronology of Jesus

The Birth of Jesus

The Death of Jesus

The Resurrection of Jesus

Family, Friends, and Foes

The Language(s) Jesus Spoke

The Self-Understanding of Jesus

The Message of Jesus I: Miracles, Continuing Controversies

The Message of Jesus II: Parables

Part Three: Jesus and the Legacy of Israel

Jesus and God

Jesus and the Sabbath

Jesus and the Temple

Jesus and the Shema

Jesus and the Purity Paradigm

Jesus and the Law

Jesus and the Holy Land

Jesus and Sinners and Outcasts

Jesus and Israel's Eschatological Constitution

Jesus, Satan, and Company

Jesus and Apocalypticism

Handbook for the Study of theHistorical Jesus

Contents

Introduction: The Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus in Perspective

The "Dark Side of Power"-Beelzebul: Manipulated or Manipulator? Reflections on the History of a Conflict in the Traces Left in the Memory of its Narrators

Did Jesus Break the Fifth (Fourth) Commandment?

Did Jesus Stay at Bethsaida? Arguments from Ancient Texts and Archaeology for Bethsaida and Et-Tell

Flawed Heroes and Stories Jesus Told: The One About a Man Wanting to Kill

Jesus and Magic: The Question of the Miracles

Jesus and the Greeks: A Semiotic Reading of John 12:20-28

Jesus and the Synagogue

Jesus and the Ten Words

Jesus as Moving Image: The Public Responsibility of the Historical Jesus Scholar in the Age of Film

Jesus "Magic" from a Theodicean Perspective

Jesus "Rhetoric": The Rise and Fall of "The Kingdom of God"

Jewish Galilee

On Avoiding Bothersome Busyness: Q/Luke 12:22-31 in its Greco-Roman Context

Poverty and Wealth in Jesus and the Jesus Tradition

The Question of the Baptists' Disciples on Fasting (Matt 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39)

Riddles, Wit, and Wisdom

Three Questions about the Life of Jesus

Why Was Jesus Not Born in Nazareth?

Words of Jesus in Paul: On the Theology and Praxis of the Jesus Tradition

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors